Packet Assert Proposal

[Radek Pazdera]

Hi,

I did a series of tests for LNST lately where I needed to check whether 
packets
with some properties left or arrived to some interface. The usual way of 
doing
this is to run tcpdump with some filter, grep the results for the required
properties and see if you get something.

I thought it might be useful to be able to do this natively in LNST. 
Maybe crate
new command type like this:

<command type="packet_assert" timeout="10" bg_id="5">
<option name="interface" value="192.168.1.100" />
<option name="filter" value="igmp" />
<option name="grep_for" value="igmp query v{$igmp_version}" />
<option name="grep_for" value="> {$multiaddr}" />
<option name="min_count" value="5" />
</command>

Do you think it's a good idea or should I do it some other way/not do 
things like
this at all?

We could discuss it together with the previous sysctl proposal if you're 
interested.

Thank you,
Radek Pazdera

[Jiri Pirko]

Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 04:14:46PM CEST, rpazdera(a)redhat.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did a series of tests for LNST lately where I needed to check
> whether packets
> with some properties left or arrived to some interface. The usual way
> of doing
> this is to run tcpdump with some filter, grep the results for the required
> properties and see if you get something.
>
> I thought it might be useful to be able to do this natively in LNST.
> Maybe crate
> new command type like this:
>
> <command type="packet_assert" timeout="10" bg_id="5">
> <option name="interface" value="192.168.1.100" />
> <option name="filter" value="igmp" />
> <option name="grep_for" value="igmp query v{$igmp_version}" />
> <option name="grep_for" value="> {$multiaddr}" />
> <option name="min_count" value="5" />
> </command>
>
> Do you think it's a good idea or should I do it some other way/not do
> things like
> this at all?
>
> We could discuss it together with the previous sysctl proposal if
> you're interested. 
Hi Radek.

I like both your proposals. Sure we can meet up and discuss it further.
Catch me up on IRC and we can settle time and place.

Jirka

> Thank you,
> Radek Pazdera
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